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About page 2019-09-20 2022-08-01

About Me

LinkedIn handle

Projects

GitHub handle GitLab handle npm handle Codeberg handle

Architecture

Architecture behind mdleom.com

mdleom.com is served from two identical VMs hosted in a cloud provider. The VMs are using NixOS and Caddy web server. The web server functions as a file server to serve static website. Each VM has cloudflared to connect the web server to Cloudflare CDN using an outbound tunnel. Each cloudflared instance acts as a replica that connects to the same tunnel to provide failover.

The web server is able to failover to mirrors (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, GitLab Pages and GitHub Pages). Blog content is deployed from a GitLab repository which hosts the source. The source is compiled to static site using Hexo. The repo also hosts images and attachments; images are resized on-the-fly using Statically.

More details are available in the following series of posts:

  • {% post_link caddy-nixos-part-1 'Part 1: Install NixOS' %}
  • {% post_link caddy-nixos-part-2 'Part 2: Configure NixOS' %}
  • {% post_link caddy-nixos-part-3 'Part 3: Configure Caddy' %}
  • {% post_link tor-hidden-onion-nixos 'Part 4: Setup Tor hidden service' %}
  • {% post_link i2p-eepsite-nixos 'Part 5: Configure I2P' %}
  • {% post_link cloudflare-argo-nixos 'Setup Cloudflare Argo Tunnel in NixOS' %}

Services

  • Nitter: A free and open source lightweight alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.
  • Teddit: A free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy.
  • Libreddit: A private front-end for Reddit. No JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat.
  • SimplyTranslate: Provide fast and private translations to the user without wasting much overhead for extensive styling or JavaScript. Supports Google Translate engine.
  • Lingva: An alternative front-end for Google Translate. Retrieves the translation without using any Google-related service.
  • Wikiless: A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.
  • Scribe: Alternative front-end to Medium.com
  • [LibMedium]: Privacy-focused proxy for medium.com
  • Rimgo: An alternative frontend for Imgur. Images and albums can be viewed without wasting resources from downloading and running tracking scripts.

Publications

  • Leom, MD, Deegan, G, Martini, B & Boland, J 2021, 'Information disclosure in mobile device: examining the influence of information relevance and recipient', HICSS, pp. 4632-4640. PDF
  • Leom, MD 2020, 'User privacy preservation on mobile devices: investigating the role of contextual integrity', PhD thesis, University of South Australia. PDF
  • Leom, MD, Choo, K-KR & Hunt, R 2016, 'Remote wiping and secure deletion on mobile devices: a review', Journal of Forensic Sciences, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.13203. Postprint
  • Leom, MD 2015, 'Remote wiping in Android', MSc thesis, University of South Australia. PDF
  • Leom, MD, D'orazio, CJ, Deegan, G & Choo, K-KR 2015, 'Forensic collection and analysis of thumbnails in Android', Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA, IEEE, pp. 1059-66, doi: 10.1109/Trustcom.2015.483. Postprint